Tax assessment notice

Your tax assessment notice is a summary of your tax for the past year, showing your income, deductions and allowances and tax paid.

It is available each year in March and you can see if you are entitled to a refund of overpaid tax or if you have paid too little tax. If you are entitled to a refund, we transfer the refund to your account automatically in most cases.

1 May 2018 is the deadline if you want to make changes to your tax assessment notice in E-tax.

If you want to see your expected income, deductions and allowances and tax for the current year, you have to check your preliminary income assessment.

What are they?

This is SKAT's assessment of your tax budget (income and tax payable for the coming year).

Preliminary income assessment is:

Budget

Applies to next year

May be updated several times during the year

Tax assessment notice

This is SKAT's calculation of your final tax accounts for the past year (your actual earnings and tax payment).

Tax assessment notice is:

Accounts

Applies to the past year

Calculated once a year

Relevant periods

You can see your preliminary income assessment on www.skat.dk/tastselv each year from November.

You can see your tax assessment notice on www.skat.dk/tastselv each year in March.

What do I need to do?

Preliminary income assessment

Update your preliminary income assessment when it is available or if:

your income changes

you raise a loan

you start a business

the distance between home and work changes

Tax assessment notice

Check your tax assessment notice and see if you are entitled to a refund or have to pay outstanding tax:

Check the information

Correct information if required

We obtain most of the information for your tax assessment notice from your bank, your employer or student grant provider, for example. If your tax assessment looks right, you do not need to do anything. However, you have to enter certain deductions and allowances yourself.

Deductions and allowances that you generally need to check and correct:

You need to file your extended tax return by 1 July 2018. Please note that you need to complete and accept your tax return even if you have nothing to add to the information listed in your service letter.

You should file a tax return (use the extended tax return) if you:

are self-employed

have foreign income or property

own rental property that you do not live in personally

are an artist and are covered by the income equalisation scheme for artists

work with irregular financial year

own shares in investment project partnerships (ordinary or limited) (anparter) which are not subject to the rules governing such shares.